• Performance and stability improvements.
• Optimization and testing for .NET 6.
• All UIs and templates have been updated for “.NET 6” style, which means they now use the new hosting API, and all UIs have been converted to Razor pages.
• Added support for CIBA, which was the last missing piece for full FAPI compliance. 

PascalABC.NET is:

• The new generation Pascal programming language that combines simplicity of classic Pascal, a great number of modern extensions and broad capabilities of Microsoft .NET Framework.
• Free, simple and powerful IDE.
• Built-in form designer for rapid development of Windows desktop applications.
• Free LGPLv3 license. 

ASP.NET Core 1.0 (formerly ASP.NET 5) provides a revamped Web development framework geared towards the requirements of modern Web applications. The new framework, currently in RC1, requires you to learn many new concepts not found in ASP.NET MVC 5. To that end, this article enumerates a few important features that ASP.NET MVC 5 developers should know as they prepare to learn this new framework. 

easystar.js is an asynchronous A* pathfinding API written in Javascript for use in your HTML5 games and interactive projects. The goal of this project is to make it easy and fast to implement performance conscious pathfinding.  Demo

• Calculates asynchronously for better overall performance
• Simple API
• Small. ~5kb
• Use it with any existing Javascript Framework

You’ve built a React web app and would love to bring it to iOS and Android. That means you have to learn React Native first, right? As it turns out, there’s an easier way to deploy to mobile. With Capacitor, a new native runtime for web apps, you can deploy any React-based web app as a PWA, iOS, or Android app - all from the same codebase. 

Smoke is the most complete jQuery Plugin and designed for use with Bootstrap 3  Demo

Blisk is a first developer-oriented browser. It provides businesses with a development workspace for the teams and freelancers to develop and test modern web applications twice faster.

 In short, we’re making Xamarin’s cross-platform tools available in Visual Studio, from Community up through Enterprise at no additional cost and we’re open-sourcing the Xamarin SDK – the core of the Xamarin toolchain. In addition, we’re making Xamarin’s services (for example, Test Cloud and Xamarin University) available along with the existing Microsoft mobile DevOps capabilities.

https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blog&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=xamarin-for-all 

• New responsive containers! Over a year in the making, fluid up to a particular breakpoint, available for all responsive tiers.
• New responsive .row-cols classes for quickly specifying the number of columns across breakpoints. This one is huge for those of you who have asked for responsive card decks. 

Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1.